The JT Makeup Range

The JT Makeup range is now celebrating a 3 year anniversary since it was launched at IMATS in July 2013. The idea of the range coincided with leaving a long term teaching role at West Thames College and began as an idea with my sisters Deby and Issie. My background has always been in makeup and body painting, so something to do with a glitter range was always an idea to explore. We were sitting around the kitchen table and started playing with ideas. Deby owns a craft company called Inkylicious and started making up some pots of glitter and gold leaf from the stocks she had, next thing a label with the logo was created and we had our first products as testers. Deby helped me source my product containers and a supplier with cosmetic grade glitter, plus printed all my labels and the JT Makeup range was formed.

I was able to take on a stand at IMATS, a very prestigious trade show for makeup artists in July 2013, my sister Issie who works as a sales director came down to London to run my stand. Deby had prepared quite a few products for me including signs and price tags. With limited stock we sold out of everything in the first hour. Luckily we had body painting demos going on and we could talk about the products and courses we were going to offer. We had a list of orders for the next day so spent the Saturday evening preparing products for the next day. We had a successful weekend and it proved it was a worthwhile idea to develop further.

I started freelancing and in between jobs visited makeup colleges to show my range to the students. This was a tester to see if they liked the range. The feedback was positive. In March 2014 the JT Makeup range was available to buy in Screenface. This in turn followed with orders from PAM, Love Makeup & Illusion magazine. The following year I finally launched my website. The products sell very well at Makeup shows & online. The popular ranges are the metallic leaf & the glitter discs. The range has proved popular with makeup artists and have been used in editorial, runway, film & TV productions.

The JT Makeup range at the Love Makeup Shop.

The JT Makeup range at Screenface

Always believe a dream can come true. These products were created with love & a passion for the makeup industry.

Check out www.jtmakeup.co.uk for more info

The Face Painting Shop

Last Friday evening I attended the 3rd Anniversary Party of the Face Painting Store in Stanford Le Hope. This was the first time I was able to visit this incredible store. I have followed the journey of this store since it first opened and is now known as an Award Winning store built up by the talented Nathalie with her sheer hard work ethic which has now paid a multitude of rewards.

I loved the store which is packed from top to bottom with assortments of face paints, glitters, stencils, brushes, sponges and makeup cases; including one of my favourites Get-Set-Go bags.

On one of the walls are a collection of awards for Nathalie & Dupe magazine. These awards are testament to Nathalies vision and a strong team around her who make you feel very welcome in the store.

The turnout was great and the shop was packed, it really is a sweetie store for makeup artists, body artists & face painters. I took away some of the issues of Dupe Magazine which I have enjoyed reading. Thank you Nathalie & everyone at The Face Painting Store. It was a really enjoyable event & really lovely to catch up with so many friends

Always love my photos with these two lovelies Bobbi Bicker and Maria Malone guerbaa ❤️

For more information check out www.thefacepaintingshop.com

The JT Makeup Studio

Three years ago when I finished working full time in education at West thames College my aims were to set up a range of products, offer some short courses and work as a freelance makeup artist. Quite early on I became quite busy with freelance work so put the idea of courses to one side and instead taught occasional days in other colleges. My product range of glitters and metallic leaf took off and this range is now available in Screenface, Love_ Makeup,and Illusion Magazine. The glitter discs are also available at The Face Painting Shop and the Metallic Leaf is stocked at PAM in West london.

Over the last year I have started offering 1-1 courses for career planning and airbrushing so earlier on this year I decided to offer training courses based in Leeds and London. The courses offer training for beginners in hair and makeup. The courses I am offering are:
Film, TV, Media Hair & Makeup - 12 weeks
Intensive training for the film & TV industries. Comes with a hair & makeup kit

Fashion Media Hair & Makeup - 6 weeks
Intensive training for the Fashion & Media industries includes airbrush training. Comes with a hair & makeup kit

Bridal Hair & Makeup including - 2 weeks
Covers all areas of bridal hair & makeup including airbrushing

Body Painting & Airbrushing - 1 week

The Business of Makeup - 1 day 
Seminar based aimed at Makeup Artists starting out

The Business of makeup - 2 days
Seminar based aimed at Makeup Artists starting out covering a wide area of topics

There are only 10 places on each course.

There is a closed FB account for current students & graduates which will offer networking opportunities, jobs and discount shopping evenings at Makeup Stores.

The courses begin in Leeds in August and the London courses will begin in April 2017. The courses running in August in Leeds & London will be:

The Business of Makeup

Bridal Hair & Makeup

For more information please email JTMakeupUK@gmail.com